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A Year of Reinvention

Ours was a year of uncertainty, especially after reverberations from September’s economic crash worked their way through the global economy. It was the fall of 2008, and my Nieman year…

Journalism: Done The Atavist Way

‘… I liked the idea of being part of something new and something that attempts to reinvigorate the field of long-form journalism by re-engineering the business model that pays for…

A Literary Exploration of How Power Corrupts

This story is ‘about how the worlds of journalism and fiction writing are not as unimaginably different as one might think.’

Visual Intensity of Words

‘Does the Kindle allow the visual even more dominance over the other senses in the act of reading?’

Novels Win Out Over Journalism

‘The biggest shift in going from journalism to books is not from scribe to artist, but employee to entrepreneur—suddenly self-employed, with no benefits, no expense account, and no security.’

Wangari Maathai—A Reporter’s Remembrance

Wangari Maathai holds her Nobel Peace Prize and certificate in 2004. Maathai, a Kenyan ecologist, was the first African woman and the first environmentalist to have won the coveted prize.…

What Often Goes Unsaid

The racial dynamic of what happens inside a newsroom is ‘an elusive if contentious subject that seldom rises to become a topic of media forums or workshops—except when minority journalists…

Will Machines Replace Journalists?

After looking at start-ups for their book, “The Monkey That Won a Pulitzer,” two Italian journalists launched a project that uses motion graphics to tell news stories with context.

Evin Prison: A Destination for ‘Troublesome’ Journalists In Iran

Nicola Bruno’s provocative piece about machines replacing journalists is among the essays featured in this section of Nieman Reports. Other writers take us inside Tehran’s Evin prison, where Iran held…

Being There to See—With the Challenge of Being Heard

‘I learned quickly that for a black reporter to cover a civil rights story in the Deep South and live to tell about it, I had to blend in.’